TARUSCONIENSES
Eth.
TARUSCONIENSES as the name stands in Harduin‘s edition of Pliny (
4.4), but the reading is doubtful. Harduin found Taracunonienses in five MSS., and there are other variations. Besides
Tarascon on the
Rhone, there is
Tarascon on the
[p. 2.1108]Arriège, a branch of the
Garonne. This Tarascon is in the
Pays de Foix, and in a valley at the foot of the Pyrenees, which circumstance seems to indicate more probably the position of a small tribe or people than that of
Tarascon on the
Rhone. This
Tarascon on the
Arriège is mentioned in middle age documents under the name of Castrum Tarasco. Pliny's Tarusconienses, or whatever may be the true name, are enumerated among the Oppida Latina of Narbonensis.
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